by Washington Irving · Ediciones Miguel Sánchez · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471690296
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«Crónicas Moriscas. Leyendas de la conquista de Granada» is a collection of historical tales by Washington Irving in paperback (404 pages).
It brings together legends and chronicles about the conquest of Granada, with sieges of fortresses, knights, battles and the clash between the Christian and Morisco worlds. Washington Irving gives literary form to historical episodes and oral traditions of medieval Spain, combining chronicle, adventure and the memory of a kingdom that disappears.
Version, prologue and notes by Luis Báez Díaz; part of the Biblioteca de Escritores y Temas Granadinos.
For readers of historical fiction set in medieval Spain and of the classic prose of Washington Irving.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
